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English
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A wake-up call to empowerment. Oscar-nominated actress, Grammy-winning entertainer, entrepreneur--Queen Latifah has done it all. Through everything she has encountered, she has come to love herself, including her flaws. But this transformation didn't happen overnight: The Queen had to overcome a series of challenges--difficult moments--before she knew she was going to emerge triumphant. We all have such moments. The question is, how can we learn from...
Author
Language
English
Description
A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife. It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...
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Language
English
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In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In revisiting her diaries, Fisher ponders the joys and insanity...
7) Shockaholic
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 22 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"An author and an actress meet by chance and decide to marry without realizing that the other is famous. Chaos ensues after the wedding as both the bride and groom discover each other's celebrity." -- Container.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1915, zmissingy heiress Victorine Berryman, aka zBella Mae Goodwin,y along with her film star best friend, arrives in Hollywood where she experiences the magic of the movie business as well as its dark side as she figures out who she truly wants to be.
11) Red Joan
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...
12) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version; director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
In Jet Li's first ever dramatic role, this is a story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite love that parents have for their children and their unending desire to take care and look after them to their best abilities, no matter the struggle, no matter the effort....
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[©2006]
Edition
Collector's ed. ; widescreen
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.
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